Donkeyshott & Xuitlacoche

. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . Take the case of Tarantino . Tarantino started out as a film buff immersed in film. He obsessed, and the films he directs are not simply "homages", they don't merely make references to the films he likes, his films are authored by the films that formed him. It is not particularly original to say this, but it is interesting to reflect on the idea. In fact the central plot line of "Kill Bill" is almost completely plagiarised from an earlier film, right down to the scene where the heroine escapes from a wooden casket. Of course Tarantino has his heroine escape using Kung Fu. Take another example, that of Bob Dylan. He was a Tarantino of sorts. Robert Zimmerman was a music buff, an obsessive and a fan of Woody Guthrie. In fact he was also a rather sinister mythomane . He went to Woody Guthrie, immobilised and dying, in order to help himself get anointed as a folk singer. Imagine Mark Chapman singing John Lennon his songs as ...

I've just had a long meeting with a professor of German at the University and in a short space of time he explained many things to me in addition to translating several letters from the period of the war and the period just prior to the war. I didn't know that both families were in touch with each other. I didn't know that Heini was such an important go between in the whole affair. I didn't know that the Prague ghetto was even worse in some cases than the Warsaw ghetto and that Regine was living with all her important possessions taken away from her in a ghetto with very little food and certainly no protein. Regine confided to Heini, forbidding him to tell Else or Lisa that she was in such a desperate situation. She was considering suicide because it was so bad. Pathetically, she offers to help Heini. "Some things are available here which you might need." she says, and sends Heini and Caroline her bedding and a few other things. Carolin is 67. She berates God ...

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